Keri Freeman
- January 28, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
BEHIND THE LENSES: Dance Camera West Finds New Home on Broad Stage
With so many stage performances now having to streaming live after making adjustments due to Covid, Dance Camera West is no stranger to merging of dance and film. Since 2000,…
Abel Weiss
- January 28, 2021
- 4 minutes Read
California Restaurant Association: The Hot Sauce of the Rebellion
What a great time to be a member of the California Restaurant Association. For roughly $500 you too can join in the fun of advocating for consumer rights while kicking…
- January 28, 2021
- 3 minutes Read
Find Your Parrot: Cocodealers Coconut Shop
In the heart of the Arts District, located between a local candle shop, RXLA, and a concierge medical start-up, Ready Responders, there is a brand new store in town called Cocodealers, your friendly…
- January 27, 2021
- 14 minutes Read
5 Greatest Health Trends of 2021 and the Healthy Beverages That Go With Them
Living through months in a pandemic has lent many to less-than-healthy habits, extra weight, and reduced physical activity. 2021 brings new hope with priorities set to improving mental health, personal…
- January 18, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Carjacker Steals “Downtown News” Delivery Truck, Kills Biker Before Crashing Moments Later
Viewers watched in horror over Martin Luther King Holiday weekend as surveillance video footage showed an unsuspecting delivery driver being carjacked by an unknown assailant. Grainy video broadcasted on local…
Kellie Aldrich
- January 14, 2021
- 5 minutes Read
What in the Hell is Going On With Pershing Square?
It may be little, but oh, is it so mighty…mighty controversial. DTLA’s one-block wonder, Pershing Square, has seen a lot of life, a lot of transformation, and now a lot…
- January 12, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Karate, Love & Basketball: Team Panasonic Gives Big Screens to Little Tokyo’s Terasaki Budokan
More big news for Terasaki Budokan (Little Tokyo Service Center) as Panasonic, a leading global technology company, together with Sakura Kokumai, the first U.S. Olympic karate qualifier, announce they are…
- January 10, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Lion Real Estate HQ Leaves Downtown Den in Search of Suburbs
Lion Real Estate Group (‘Lion’) is a real estate investment and asset management firm focused on acquiring multifamily and creative office properties founded by Jeff Weller and Mory Barak in 2007. Lion manages 27 properties…
- January 8, 2021
- 3 minutes Read
Downtown Mourns the Passing of Tommy Lasorda
Hall of Fame Dodgers’ manager Tommy Lasorda, who spent seven decades in the Dodger organization and became one of the most memorable personalities in baseball history, passed away Thursday night the team…
- January 5, 2021
- 2 minutes Read
Hitz Foundation Launches Hero Theater’s 10 Year Nuestro Planeta – in Support of LatinX Theater & Film
Downtown L.A.’s Hero Theatre and Hero Multimedia have launched Nuestro Planeta, a ten-year multimedia new works initiative that focuses on educating Latinx film and theater audiences about environmental justice within the Americas. “Through industrialization, migration…
Caroline Platzman
- January 1, 2021
- 4 minutes Read
Music To Your Ears – Fhedesh: Welcome the Darkness
In the last days of two-thousand and twenty, Downtown Weekly accepted an invitation to visit and interview the underworld Goth artist known as Fhedesh. Once inside, we found ourselves surrounded…
